This is what the liberals most want to do. They claim to have safety of the populace in mind, but most don’t even understand what they are asking for. They want to limit the access Legal gun owners with carry permits have to anywhere they are. I have had one person tell me she would not feel safe if I showed up with a gun. I am not a convicted felon. My most horrific crime to date is speeding…..lock my ass up quick!!! I tried to reason with this person, but she has been convinced that my gun would jump up out of my purse and shoot her without warning. I find it perplexing. Have liberals all been exposed to the same autonomous guns? I have never encountered these guns that shoot without warning or provocation.
The fact is that most legal gun owners, especially those that have gone to the trouble to apply for a carry permit, are the most responsible people you will meet. They are not Bubbas running around in Appalachia firing at anything that moves. They have been vetted by the local police department. They are most certainly not felons. Most are also fairly well trained in the use of their guns. They understand when to use it. They understand that it is a right that can be taken away if they abuse the use of it. They understand it is deadly and respect this. They don’t play with their guns. What most liberals don’t understand is that those legal gun owners may just save their life one day.
Case in point. A liquor store in Georgia was the site of a shooting. A disgruntled customer who owed money to the owner shot the owner and another customer. What stopped him from shooting others in the store? A legal gun owner emptying his gun in the direction of the shooter. This man undoubtedly saved lives that day. It was not well covered in the media. It was a footnote. Another case in point. A man went to sell a puppy(yes a puppy) and a gun was held to his friend’s head when they showed the puppy to the potential buyer. Little did the ‘buyer’ a.k.a. thief know that they friend was a former Marine. He fixed it so this ‘buyer’ would never attempt to buy something else that way. This ‘buyer’ had also recently robbed two others at gunpoint. How long would it have been before the ‘buyer’ killed an innocent person? A legal gun owner stopped that from happening.
The attitudes in this country are the result of years of preaching by ultra liberals who would love to disarm those of us with sense. The Second Amendment was designed to protect citizens from tyranny. Most liberals don’t even know what tyranny means. They know what Kim Khardashian had for lunch, but they don’t understand the Second Amendment, even as they rail against it. The framers of the Constitution understood all too well what it was like to be defenseless in the face of a tyrannical government and they wanted to prevent it from ever happening again. All this talk about whether or not someone would shoot a deer with an AK-47 is moot. Our guns are to protect us from tyranny.
Most American gun owners are truly peaceful people. That does not mean they are pushovers. They don’t wish to be violent to anyone. At the same time, they want no one to be violent to them. They want to protect themselves, their loved ones and whatever unarmed liberals they can from becoming the victims of violence. Violence most commonly takes the form of crime these days, but don’t ever believe that tyrannical government is not possible here.
Think tyranny doesn’t exist here? Ask Mr Finicum’s family if tyranny is alive and well in this country. He and his fellow protesters were called domestic terrorists nonstop from the time they occupied and empty building until the time one of them was shot with his hands in the air. Yes, they showed up with guns. Did they ever shoot them? Nope. Because they are responsible gun owners who only fire when they feel endangered. Perhaps they should not have assumed the government had no such compunction. Now they are all being arrested for the crime of disagreeing with the government. And that is the definition of tyranny my friends. We should all be watching what happens in these trials. Of course, they will barely get any air time on the news. That is also part of tyranny–control of information. The government has effectively trained the media to report only what they want reported. Thank God we now have the internet. And the liberals hate the internet. They hate an outlet of free speech that opposes them that they have no control over. They want controls. They call it hate speech. Again, who died in Oregon? A protester was the only person to lose a life. Nobody else was even injured. Think about that. All these heavily armed, dangerous men and not a one of them shot at the authorities. Kind of pokes holes in that whole domestic terrorist label.
Tyranny does not come from immediate overthrow of a government. It comes in the form of multiple small erosions of liberty. First they limit speech, but only speech in opposition. Speech in favor of tyranny, no matter how hateful, is allowed. They also wish to limit means to make a living. They couch it in the form of ‘benefits.’ Benefits are nothing more than crutches they hope to get the populace dependent on. The more they depend on the government, the less likely they are to oppose it. It’s the most subversive form of slavery. Finally, when they wish to gain complete control, they talk about totally removing our ability to protect ourselves. They will protect us. They will come to our rescue. We are to trust that when they destroy our guns, they will step in and provide the protection we got from the guns. But they can’t and I don’t believe for a minute that this is their goal. Their goal is a submissive populace. Once guns are turned in, they can do what they want without fear of retribution. Think it can’t happen here? Keep your head in the sand then. I will keep my gun and protect you.